On New Year’s Eve, Irish state media RTE, broadcast during its countdown programme a mocking clip, produced by satirical news website Waterford Whispers News, depicting God as a rapist and reporting his imprisonment for two years after “forcing himself on a young Middle Eastern migrant and allegedly impregnating her against her will”.
Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster, RTE, on Saturday apologised, after receiving several complaints over a New Year’s Eve comedy sketch that depicted God as a rapist, and fictionally reporting His imprisonment for a two-year sentence.
The TV and radio broadcaster added that “the formal complaints received by RTÉ are being entered into our complaints system and will be responded to in accordance with the relevant statutory process.”
RTE on New Year’s Eve aired a clip produced by Waterford Whispers News, a satirical news website, accusing God of raping a “young Middle Eastern migrant and allegedly impregnating her against her will”.
RTE said that it had received about 1,100 complaints about the clip. The sketch was condemned by Ireland’s Catholic primate archbishop, Eamon Martin, as well.
The Irish broadcaster responded by noting that “the clip will not be removed from the RTÉ Player as requested”, adding that “a warning will be attached to the footage to advise viewers that the material may cause offence”.
Responding to the offensive segment aired by the country’s national broadcaster, the archbishop-elect of Dublin, Dermot Farrell, said that he was “deeply disturbed” by the clip, which “which betrayed a fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of rape and of God.”
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